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Robert Stone is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, born in England and educated in the United States. His father was the noted historian Lawrence Stone who chaired the history department at Princeton, where he grew up. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has also studed at Sorbonne University in Paris and at Lee Strasberg in New York. His breakthrough and debut was with the Oscar nominated RADIO BIKINI in 1987, which starts with a live radio braodcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. The films tells the story of the US Navy sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout from the test. Stone's work has been screened at Sundance and dozens other festivals and televised in many countries throughout the world. While known mostly for his handling of archival material in historical documentaries [including one fake documentary -- "World War III" (1998)], he has also shot a number films and has recently shot and produced several well received documentaries created on DV. His work has been coproduced with a wide variety of television companies including PBS, Discovery, TLC, Channel Four, ARTE, ZDF, RAI and Court TV and CBS. In addition to his work in television, he is also the creator of a 24 part semi-interactive permanent installation at the JFK Museum in Boston. He has served as a judge for a number of awards and festivals in both documentary and fiction and recently had his first retrospective in Canada. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Other notable credits include THE SATELLITE SKY (1990), FAREWELL, GOOD BROTHERS (1992), AMERICAN BABYLON (2000), 3 episodes of "The American Experience" (1988//2004), NEVERLAND: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY (2004), "Hollywood Vietnam" (2005, TV), and OSWALD'S GHOST (2007).    Nominated for Best Achievement in Documentary Features 1987: RADIO BIKINI - Producer 1 nomination